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[uknsaunders]

Bit of a drip feed this but let's start with the result:-

CBF 289-6 - 56 overs (Shacklady 73, Holman 62, Pistol 53, Hodgson 45*) v Stone 256 ao - 51 overs (Barton 79*, Whatsham 60, Holman 7-54, Pistol 3-33)
CBF won by 33 runs

[King pair]

Can you put the batting order on this thread but in their ID's as I'm struggling with names

[King pair]

Also, can we have a game up north? I'm gonna pull the southern/northern discrimination card soon!

[WalkingWicket37]

Also, can we have a game up north? I'm gonna pull the southern/northern discrimination card soon!

Keep them down south, bit closer to Southampton if possible, and I'll see if I can get the day off I there's another one! The 600 odd mile round trip meant this one was a bit far for me

[ajmw89]

See mr barton got a few

[uknsaunders]

In batting order:-

Jake Miller (Vitas Cricket),Arvind (CUSTOM-BATS), Gary Shacklady (mate of Pistols, not on the forum yet), Chris Holman (Soulman), Ian Hodgson (Manormanic), Jamie Mullay (Farnham Quins 2), Pete 'Pistol' Dickenson (pistol101), Nick Saunders (uknsaunders), Ciaran Woodcock (Ciaran)

think I got that right!

[uknsaunders]

Also, can we have a game up north? I'm gonna pull the southern/northern discrimination card soon!

would help me too! I left at 5.30am and got home at midnight lol

[King pair]

Cheers nick.

[King pair]

Where do you live nick?

[uknsaunders]

Starting from the beginning:-

Left home at 5.40am for the long trip south. On route I picked up Pistol and Gary from Marlow and diverted north round a surprisingly quiet M25 to get Ciaran. Loaded with bodies we sped down through the Kent countryside and finally got to Matt's H4L Workshop around 9.30am:-






Chris was already there and Matt welcomed us with a much needed coffee. For the next hour we talked bats and cricket, played with some cracking bats and had a look at the new clefts Matt had got back in. Many thanks to Matt for showing us around.






Before we knew it 10.30 had approached and we were late for the game!

[uknsaunders]

Where do you live nick?

Kineton, Warwickshire

[King pair]

Kineton, Warwickshire

That doesn't count as north! Haha I'd hard to drive 2 hours to get to you!

[uknsaunders]

On to the match. In some disarry due to procricketer going awol and not picking up poor Charlie15 (see another thread for that one) we had 9 players and I begged my opposite number to let us bat in the hope of getting reinforcements. Jake and Arvind went out to bat:-



The ball was moving around and Jake was very watchful:-







However Jake and Arvind went a bit quicker than we would like and at 11-2 things didn't look good. However Chris started playing some shots:-





Gary, after some good bowling from the home teams bowlers started to also cut loose:-






With both guys passing 50, things looked better at lunch when we reached 135-2. A lovely lunch it was too:-



Post lunch report coming up in a bit.

[uknsaunders]

During lunch we agreed with our hosts to let two batsman bat again and they would provide us with two sub fielders. Bringing us up to 11 a side. Things didn't start to well post lunch as Chris, Gary and Jamie fell in a short space of time to leave us 182-5. We were lucky to have man mountain (and moving as quickly as one thanks to a bad knee) Ian and specialist pinch hitter Pistol at the crease. Ian nurdled for a bit and Pistol tried to smack it as far as he could:-

Ian






Pistol








They put on exactly 100 before Pistol fell. Skipper came in ensure his red inker:-




We finished on 289-6 off 56 overs. Since Stone had scored 310 the day before and our bowling attack was threadbare to say the least. We were a little apprehensive about was to follow.

[Kulli]

Proper names required here, none of this real life nonsense.